The Dining Room

Within a single dining room, this critically-acclaimed portrait of 20th century family life tells the story of the dying culture of upper-middle class America.

Presented as a series of charming and soulful vignettes, this play explores the joys and tensions at the core of American prosperity. Timeless in its appeal, still contemporary in it's content, it charts the evolution of the American family and its primary meeting place, the dining room table. A place and a ritual that is sadly, rapidly disappearing from the American home.

The play examines 20th-century family life in a series of scenes dissecting birthday parties, holidays, breakfasts, affairs and every imaginable relationship. Spanning the century and a single day at the same time, The Dining Room is Gurney's humorous and moving evocation of family life, past and present.

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